[clug] [OT] trending, but not new? 'traceroute bad.horse'.

Wed Sep 30 01:59:40 UTC 2015

This may be an old meme, but it amused me… A bit nerdy, but appealed. [Not a Markov Chain, but actual song lyrics.]
I hadn’t heard of the film before… 

Before the Net arrived in Oz, 1989, we had “Mark V. Shaney” [a Markov Chain text generator] that could be fed various newsgroups.
Hilarious results when you combined net.singles with technical groups.

Wikipedia says Rob Pike designed it & it’s listed in the Acknowledgements of P-of-P by Kernighan & Pile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney>

Came to me From Graham Binns, via Martin Pool on G+

On Reddit.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3mho7z/traceroute_m_50_badhorse/>

Who suggest looking at the (invalid) X.509 Certificate as well.
Which contains a clip of the song.
<https://signed.bad.horse>

Song Lyrics:
<http://www.lyricsmania.com/bad_horse_letter_lyrics_dr_horrible.html>

<http://drhorrible.com/dr-horrible-lyricsliner-notes/bad-horse-chorus-reprise/>
> Music by Jed Whedon and Joss Whedon
> Lyrics by Joss Whedon
> Performed by Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, and Zack Whedon

traceroute to bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  fw-nb9w (192.168.1.1)  3.373 ms  2.502 ms  1.742 ms
 2  lns20.cbr1.on.ii.net (203.16.215.189)  38.756 ms  38.937 ms  37.199 ms
 3  xe11-1-0.cr1.cbr1.on.ii.net (150.101.160.205)  38.667 ms  38.942 ms  42.071 ms
 4  ae0.cr1.cbr2.on.ii.net (150.101.33.7)  38.535 ms  39.256 ms  39.766 ms
 5  ae2.br1.syd4.on.ii.net (150.101.33.22)  44.150 ms  43.892 ms  42.608 ms
 6  te0-0-0-1.br1.lax1.on.ii.net (203.16.213.69)  189.790 ms  189.462 ms  188.706 ms
 7  10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.lax1.he.net (206.223.123.37)  197.340 ms  232.512 ms  212.925 ms
 8  100ge11-1.core1.lax2.he.net (72.52.92.122)  192.093 ms  198.111 ms  201.654 ms
 9  10ge14-1.core1.den1.he.net (72.52.92.37)  247.108 ms  220.193 ms  219.784 ms
10  10ge6-1.core1.msp1.he.net (184.105.222.42)  237.035 ms  247.362 ms  249.254 ms
11  ip-house.gigabitethernet3-6.core1.msp1.he.net (216.66.78.110)  237.524 ms  238.450 ms  236.487 ms
12  c4500-1.mpls.iphouse.net (216.250.189.170)  234.578 ms  234.924 ms  234.479 ms
13  egw-iphouse.mplsc1.mn.us.sn11.net (209.240.64.149)  235.028 ms  236.505 ms  236.115 ms
14  sandwichnet.dmarc.lga1.atlanticmetro.net (208.68.168.214)  255.817 ms  257.361 ms  256.125 ms
15  bad.horse (162.252.205.130)  256.506 ms  257.440 ms  256.290 ms
16  bad.horse (162.252.205.131)  262.793 ms  261.368 ms  261.991 ms
17  bad.horse (162.252.205.132)  268.775 ms  265.304 ms  267.866 ms
18  bad.horse (162.252.205.133)  271.272 ms  271.596 ms  271.470 ms
19  he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134)  302.445 ms  307.635 ms  305.217 ms
20  the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135)  281.069 ms  281.822 ms  281.583 ms
21  he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136)  287.459 ms  286.287 ms  286.922 ms
22  that.you.just.sent.in (162.252.205.137)  292.974 ms  292.353 ms  291.993 ms
23  it.needs.evaluation (162.252.205.138)  297.405 ms  297.560 ms  295.381 ms
24  so.let.the.games.begin (162.252.205.139)  300.894 ms  299.276 ms  299.078 ms
25  a.heinous.crime (162.252.205.140)  305.757 ms  308.087 ms  307.275 ms
26  a.show.of.force (162.252.205.141)  340.049 ms  343.221 ms  340.230 ms
27  a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course (162.252.205.142)  345.205 ms  344.967 ms  345.837 ms
28  bad.horse (162.252.205.143)  322.987 ms  319.998 ms  319.340 ms
29  bad.horse (162.252.205.144)  329.081 ms  326.598 ms  326.737 ms
30  bad.horse (162.252.205.145)  332.064 ms  333.692 ms  332.004 ms
31  he-s.bad (162.252.205.146)  334.575 ms  338.455 ms  335.681 ms
32  the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147)  342.008 ms  339.919 ms  340.850 ms
33  is.watching.so.beware (162.252.205.148)  345.177 ms  347.038 ms  348.181 ms
34  the.grade.that.you.receive (162.252.205.149)  351.351 ms  352.688 ms  351.280 ms
35  will.be.your.last.we.swear (162.252.205.150)  356.594 ms  356.880 ms  356.982 ms
36  so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful (162.252.205.151)  364.124 ms  363.637 ms  360.872 ms
37  or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare (162.252.205.152)  367.675 ms  366.932 ms  368.240 ms
38  o_o (162.252.205.153)  371.131 ms  369.996 ms  369.909 ms
39  you-re.saddled.up (162.252.205.154)  377.217 ms  375.423 ms  376.981 ms
40  there-s.no.recourse (162.252.205.155)  380.905 ms  380.411 ms  382.829 ms
41  it-s.hi-ho.silver (162.252.205.156)  415.416 ms  415.045 ms  413.771 ms
42  signed.bad.horse (162.252.205.157)  385.421 ms  387.714 ms  386.651 ms

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Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design 
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Bad Horse Chorus (reprise) 